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Re: The Official MADONNA Discussion Thread!

I think the GQ Madonna entry above is more insulting to Katy, Kesha and the 800 female artists than Madonna.
As for Madonna, well, does she even fucking care about GQ? Good or bad, they are still talking about M.

Re: The Official MADONNA Discussion Thread!

A League Of Their Own is on TV right now. Such a great movie and Madonna was fantastic in it.
"This Used To Be My Playground" is my favorite of M.'s ballads. It's wistful, sweeping, nostalgic, and simply gorgeous.

Re: The Official MADONNA Discussion Thread!

Roger Walters is the leader of Pink Floyd.

Madonna is high because of her catalog and ticket prices.

Anywho, Lady Gaga being low surprised me. Her tickets have rocketed in price from her other tour. Nosebleed shit tickets for the ACC in February here in Toronto start at an even $50.00. I can buy two Bon Jovi tickets for the price of one Lady Gaga ticket. Crazy.

Re: The Official MADONNA Discussion Thread!

I guess I apologize for not knowing a guy from a band I never really enjoyed? Not really no.

She needs to add more Canadian dates. She needs to come to Atlantic Canada. She'd sell out here too, so it wouldn't be like she's taking a loss by coming here. One big show in Moncton or Halifax would do it. Everyone from the region would go. Moncton has hosted some huge artists! Surely Madonna could at least consider it...

Re: The Official MADONNA Discussion Thread!

There was a guy that used to review Madonna music videos on youtube. This would have been three years ago or more. He was pretty spot on with my opinions. But listening to other people ramble on about Madonna the way I do is so enlightening. If you ever decide to dissect her videos or more albums, I'd love to hear.

Re: The Official MADONNA Discussion Thread!

Originally Posted by BrianPGH

A League Of Their Own is on TV right now. Such a great movie and Madonna was fantastic in it.
"This Used To Be My Playground" is my favorite of M.'s ballads. It's wistful, sweeping, nostalgic, and simply gorgeous.

I am fascinated to see someone who unabashedly cares for that song, lol! I could never particularly stand "This Used To Be My Playground". She looks beautiful in the video no question (love the lighting and soft focus) but I find the song pretty threadbare - like there's not much musical "meat" there; that plodding bassline and gutless "soft-rock ballad" drums don't help it out much, and by the time we hit the 3 minute mark in your link with that string section solo thing (which sounds like it belongs in an entirely different track) I'm always shaking my head like "Oh my god, is this ever bad!", and it further jumps the shark with the "Used to beeeeeeee..." background vocals at 3:30. So I was intrigued to see you describe the elements that you liked about it. It also, to me, hasn't aged very well as a track - it really sounds locked into its era with that gentle synth-piano/keyboard thing which dominates its sound.

Thinking about "classic" Madonna ballads, give me the unabashed, heart-on-sleeve "Crazy For You" over "This Used To Be My Playground" any day! How could you not love it? With those retro 80s power-drums, straight-ahead bass line and accessorized in the arrangement/production with that oboe (Madonna's own suggestion) and often nonsensical backing vocals ("Bop, bop, bop, bop, ahhhh-ahhh") that seem to reflect back to older girl-group or Motown background vocal lines, I thought everything came together for that track. It's interesting to me that it is years older than "This Used To Be My Playground" but seems to hold up better - maybe a good melody is more timeless, and the arrangement definitely has those 80s touches (like that highly reverbed drum attack sound) but it's not overwhelmingly thick and textured like a lot of 80s songs were so the leaner production maybe helps it. Any 80s touches on it now sound retro-cool.

Re: Madonna is a bitch

no surprise. most of these stars are gassed off of their fame. a lot of them forget when they were nobodies struggling to make it to where they're at. they also forget that the higher up the ladder they get, the harder they fall.

one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry

Re: Madonna is a bitch

Originally Posted by reone

I dislike arrogance, but I've never known Madonna to be nice. She is known for being successful. And yes, Kylie Minogue comes across as way more accessible and friendly. I would hardly be surprised if she had her moments as well, though.

Has anyone seen that .gif where Mariah Carey basically pushes another woman away from her as she's taking pictures?

Try to remember too Madonna's kinda ungodly intelligent, IQ wise. If she'd been born in other circumstances she might be a weird, brilliant scientist shut-in or Howard Hughes or something. So I think a little bit of "off-ness" to her is to be expected.

Re: Madonna is a bitch

Originally Posted by Ram

Strong, confident woman? Must be a bitch.

Yeah I'm not exactly the kind of person to fly out of my way to defend a celebrity but I think judging someone because they don't ooze with fake, effected nicery and bubbly sweetness and saying they must therefore be an aristocratic bitch is the same sort of mindset that gets all into which Real Housewife hates which one and who's a bitch. It's all fake. You don't know these people, lol.